The ninth-ranked Yellow Jackets easily beat the Leopards 92-58 at Alexander Memorial Coliseum, but the victory did little to offer any real confidence in the starting five, especially with a trip to second-ranked Kansas coming Saturday.

The Georgia Tech bench not only kept the Yellow Jackets in the game during the first half, but also triggered a second-half surge against a team that doesn't award scholarships and fell to 3-7.

"We need the freshmen to step up," said senior center Luke Schenscher, who joined the other Georgia Tech starters to hit only 17 of 42 shots.

"This is an excellent basketball team and when they started to go on their run, we just lost our poise," Lafayette coach Fran O'Hanlon said. "We didn't know about (Morrow, Dickey and Fredrick); we didn't know their names. But we knew they had some good athletes on the bench."